It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1303 208 and the price of greed!

Along with the media and official news reports, the entire film and television industry was overturned by the bombshell news that Song Ge was suspected of committing a crime!

You know, the Spring Festival period has just begun.

The dark horse film "Hello, Li Huanying", which was co-produced by Jingxi Culture, had not even started its rapid development, but the chairman of the production company, Song Ge, was officially arrested by the police at this time.

The news quickly swept through industry group chats and social platforms like wildfire, and the shock of practitioners was beyond words.

No one expected that beneath this lively appearance, there would be such an undercurrent.

What is even more shocking is that it was not until the news of the arrest was officially announced that many people realized that the CSRC had never withdrawn its investigation into Jingxi Culture.

Those doubts that were once thought to be "unresolved" finally ushered in the most dramatic turning point two years later.

Two years ago, Jingxi Culture was at the center of controversy due to reports of financial fraud, and the news that the China Securities Regulatory Commission had intervened in the investigation caused its stock price to plummet.

But as time went by, the company successively participated in top projects such as "Fengshen" and "My Hometown and Me", and its performance seemed to be back on track, and public opinion gradually subsided.

But just when the industry had gradually acquiesced that the storm was "over", and even when Jingxi was about to join the top camp again with "Hello, Li Huanying", the thundering measures of the regulators suddenly fell at the most unexpected moment.

The official announcement of the news was like a heavy hammer, hitting the bubble of false prosperity in the industry hard, and completely silencing the capital circle.

"I guess Song Ge himself didn't expect that he would be handcuffed the next second after sitting in the office one second. He must have been scared to death on the spot, haha."

On the phone, Wang Changtian's excitement was beyond words.

Guangxian and Jingxi Culture are already competitors, and Song Ge is a shady guy, which has made Chairman Wang angry several times.

Now that he sees Song Ge being thrown into prison, how can he not be happy?
As the driving force behind the scenes, Chen Fei also had a smile on his face at this time.

"Good will be rewarded with good, evil will be punished with evil. It's not that there is no retribution, it's just that the time has not come yet."

"Oh! That's right!" Wang Changtian agreed, and added with a smile: "This time Jingxi is completely ruined, and the company is probably going to go bankrupt.

And the previous overwhelming promotional activities for "Hello, Li Huanying" will probably be forced to stop if nothing unexpected happens."

"Oh, this is the retribution he deserves."

If you want to harm others, you must be prepared to be counterattacked.

This is all his own fault, he can't blame anyone else!
As for what the fate of Jingxi Culture will be, that is not something Chen Fei can control.

He only knew that the online attacks on "Detective Chinatown 3" would not be able to escalate into a follow-up.

After all, even the instigator has been brought down, so who would bother to make trouble?
Alibaba Pictures?

Fan Luyuan doesn't have the courage. After all, compared to Jingxi, their company's bottom line is not so clean either.

If this really comes to a head, Alibaba Pictures won’t probably die outright like Huayi, but it will definitely end up half-crippled!
At the same time, just as people in the film and television industry were paying attention to the situation at Jingxi Culture, the quarrel between the "crazy couple" who had broken up online officially entered its climax.

The story begins in 2018.

At that time, after Zheng Shuang broke up with Hu Yanbin, she met Zhang Heng on the variety show "This is Iron Armor", and the two soon fell in love.

In 2019, the two began living together and made their relationship public. They also participated in "Daughters' Love Season " together, but their conflicts gradually emerged during the show, and they later officially announced their breakup.

But unexpectedly, after the breakup, Zheng Shuang filed a lawsuit against Zhang Heng and demanded that he repay the loan of 2000 million yuan.

This money was transferred to Zhang Heng by Zheng Shuang in November 18.

Zheng Shuang said that this was a loan because Zhang Heng needed capital to start his business.

Zhang Heng argued that it was Zheng Shuang who asked him to resign and become an agent, as well as financial compensation from the management company and ten years of labor remuneration paid in advance.

The relationship between the two sides has reached a complete deadlock.

Then in November last year, the Shanghai JA District Court ruled at first instance that Zhang Heng should return 11 million yuan and overdue interest to Zheng Shuang.

Zhang Heng was naturally dissatisfied and chose to continue appealing.

But at the beginning of this year, the Second Intermediate People's Court directly rejected his appeal during the second instance and upheld the original verdict.

In other words, he has to pay back the 2000 million and there is no way to avoid it.

This incident was already shocking enough. After all, surrogacy is absolutely illegal in China and is not recognized by the law.

Even if Zheng Shuang's group of crazy fans expressed their willingness to still support their idol, they would definitely not be able to gain a foothold in public opinion.

But what no one expected was that, taking advantage of the incident at Jingxi Culture, Zhang Heng once again broke the news on his personal Weibo, saying that when Zheng Shuang was filming the TV series "A Chinese Ghost Story" from 2018 to 2019, his pay was as high as 1.6 million yuan!

If calculated based on the 77-day shooting time, his daily pay would be as high as 208 million!
At the same time, Zhang Heng also exposed relevant evidence such as the Yin-Yang contract, revealing that Zheng Shuang obtained "sky-high pay" by splitting the film remuneration, signing one part with a normal performance remuneration contract, and paying the other part with a false "capital increase" contract, thereby circumventing industry supervision and concealing income and making false declarations to evade taxes.

It just so happens that the drama "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also produced by Jingxi Culture Investment, but it has not yet been launched.

Once the incident was exposed, it quickly began to ferment on the Internet!
People in the circle are paying attention to Song Ge's fate and the ending of Jingxi Culture, while netizens are paying attention to what kind of ending Zheng Shuang will have.

The combination of the two hot search events instantly created a fission effect of 1+1>2.

At the same time, the number "208" has quickly become a hot internet meme referring to and satirizing the phenomenon of unreasonably high incomes in the entertainment industry.

"Tsk tsk, 208 million a day. If I work 12 hours, then that's 17 an hour. Damn, I can't even make that much in a year!"

"Now when I look at Zheng Shuang's fans on Weibo, I really want to laugh. A group of people who earn less than 200 yuan a day feel sorry for others who earn 208 million yuan a day. Think about it yourself, don't you feel uncomfortable?"

It is still the Spring Festival now, and so many negative news suddenly appeared on the Internet, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of a large number of netizens.

The authorities responded very quickly and immediately launched an investigation.

In the living room of his home, Chen Fei confidently analyzed the many online notification messages and event progress to Liu Yifei.

"It would be fine if it wasn't exposed, but if it was, no one would be able to escape."

Liu Yifei asked in surprise: "So, these are actually all true, and none of them are fake or deliberately fabricated?"

"Of course." Fade Chen shrugged. "It's not like you don't know these people. Whether it's Song Ge or Zheng Shuang, you should have heard about their reputation in the circle, right?"

"Yeah, I did hear about it, but I didn't expect them to do so many illegal things."

Because of acts such as falsification and false disclosure of financial information, LeTV and Huayi, the two former giants in the film and television industry, have now collapsed.

Under such circumstances, Jingxi Culture actually dared to carry out such an operation, which was simply outrageous!

There is also tax evasion.

Fan Bingbing’s case is right there in plain sight, yet Zheng Shuang still dared to commit a crime in defiance of the law. This is truly outrageous!
For a simple player like Liu Yifei, Song Ge and Zheng Shuang's actions undoubtedly made her unable to hide her surprise.

Isn't this just going against the law and seeking death?

Chen Fei said quietly, "When capital comes into the world, every pore is dripping with dirty blood. When the profit reaches 10%, some people are ready to move; when the profit reaches 50%, some people dare to take risks.

When the profit reaches 100%, they dare to trample on all human laws. If the profit reaches 300%, they will not even be afraid of being hanged!"

Hearing this, Liu Yifei raised her hand like a good student.

"I know this sentence. It comes from Marx's Capital."

"Yes, that's really smart."

Fade Chen gave her a thumbs up, and then a sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Just wait and see, it won't be long before you see their end."

Public opinion is very scary, especially when it is deliberately guided by someone, it can often produce unexpected results.

For example now.

As Jingxi Culture was exposed for financial fraud and its chairman was imprisoned, Hello, Li Huanying was the first to be affected. The box office just exceeded 10 billion in the first three days of the weekend, but on the fourth day, the single-day box office was directly cut in half!

Even if the quality of a movie is really good, once word of mouth and promotion and marketing are completely cut off, the number of people paying attention to it will naturally drop sharply.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult to boost movie box office.

Moreover, under the guidance of marketing accounts, even the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" was subject to malicious speculation.

Many netizens have questioned whether this movie was also involved in the relevant financial fraud contracts?

For a time, letters of complaint kept coming to the General Administration.

Even though Jia Ling knew in her heart that her directorial debut was truly innocent, she had no idea how to respond at this moment.

Because once you accidentally fall into the self-proving trap, you're completely screwed!

Several co-producers, including Alibaba, Ruyi, New Classics, and Hengdian Film, dare not show up at all at this moment, for fear of being targeted by netizens.

Affected by multiple factors, the popularity of "Hello, Li Huanying" plummeted, and its previous popularity suddenly cooled down.

And Fan Luyuan's previous thought of "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind" has now become the moon in the mirror and the flower in the water.

It’s ok that “New Gods: Nezha Reborn” didn’t take off, but the “Hello, Li Huanying” in which it participated in the investment was also crippled, and its partner Song Ge was even imprisoned...

"Fuck! What the hell is going on? How did it suddenly become like this?"

He scratched his head almost bald, but still couldn't figure it out.

At the same time, there was a burst of cheers from Feiyue Film and Television!

Because on the fifth day of its release, the total box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" successfully exceeded 40 billion yuan, breaking the record of the fastest Chinese-language film to exceed 40 billion box office.

For a time, the entire film and television industry was once again in an uproar!
"It's really profitable. Feiyue Films has really made a lot of money during this Spring Festival!"

On the China Film Group side, Jiao Hongfen couldn't hide his envy when looking at the box office performance of "Detective Chinatown 3".

In fact, China Film Group also has new films released during this Spring Festival.

For example, "The Order of the Samurai", starring Chen Kun, Zhou Xun and Chen Weiting, is a movie invested by China Film.

It’s a pity that apart from the first day box office of over 9000 million on its release day, the film’s performance in the following days was simply terrible.

The second day was 4115 million, the third day was 2006 million, and on the fourth day it plummeted to more than 1000 million.

After the five most popular days of the Spring Festival, the total box office was only 1.7 million, and the single-day box office was about to fall below million.

What makes him even more depressed is that during the entire Spring Festival period, "The Order of the Samurai" had the lowest box office performance, screenings and popularity.

But when it comes to being criticized the most, it is undoubtedly the number one.

Even "New Gods: Nezha Reborn" didn't receive as much criticism as this one!

Jiao Hongfen has completely given up on this movie...

But at the same time as giving up, he couldn't hide his reluctance!

Therefore, he can only pin his hopes on "My Fathers and Me" which is about to start filming.

"Oh, I hope this movie can do well during this year's National Day holiday."

He prayed and fantasized in his heart.

But what he didn’t know was that “The Battle at Lake Changjin”, whose post-production work was about to be completed, was also aiming for the National Day holiday!
When two main theme blockbusters collide, one of them will definitely be ruined!
……

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the popularity of the Spring Festival movie season came to a temporary end.

The single-day box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" was inevitably cut in half, from 4.5 million to 3.6 million.

If nothing unexpected happens, the market will plummet by at least 1 million yuan every day. After all, many workers have already started to return to work and are back to their companies to continue working like slaves.

But even so, this movie still made several companies such as Feiyue Pictures, Light Media, and Shanghai Film Group earn a lot of money.

At the same time, the costume comedy "The Son-in-Law" produced by Feiyue Film and Television has officially ushered in its explosive period!
Many viewers did not expect that the partnership of Guo Qilin and Song Yi could trigger such a strong chemical reaction!
"It's a good show, but it's easy to get wrinkles. After all, there's a joke every 3 seconds, and my face is full of wrinkles when I smile. I'm looking for a good way to avoid getting wrinkles online."

“Hahahahahaha, Fan Sizhe’s transformation into Ning Yi is still that familiar comedy flavor, a perfect drama to watch while eating!”

"I have been starving for dramas for several months. My eyes, which were polluted by The Legend of Hao Lan and Emergency Public Relations, can finally see the light again."

"The wind is blowing! Then Deyun Club will go bankrupt. Hahahaha, Dalin even used the lines in his crosstalk performance."

"Wow! Feiyue Films is really awesome! The popularity of "The Son-in-Law" on Youku has exceeded 10,000. It looks like it will be another hit costume drama. I didn't expect that this Spring Festival period would have a wave of "film and television hits". It's really awesome!"

You know, as of now, although "Emergency Public Relations" has been taken offline, "Shangyang Fu" has not yet aired its finale.

Faced with the strong attack of "The Rebel Princess", "The Story of Yanxi Palace", which relied on "black and red" to earn popularity and ratings, suddenly couldn't hold on.

Zhang Ziyi could only watch as the popularity of the drama she starred in began to decline rapidly, but she was powerless to reverse the situation.

"Alas, the road to TV dramas is blocked."

With a long sigh, Zhang Ziyi turned off her phone and immersed herself in the script of "My Fathers and Me" again.

She has few chances to turn things around now, so she must seize them firmly, otherwise she will be regarded as the "front wave" and be beaten hard on the beach by the "back wave".

……

In a blink of an eye, it was already late February.

On the 22nd, the total box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" smoothly exceeded 50 billion.

On the other hand, the total box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" has stumbled to 20 billion, and the single-day box office has fallen below the 1 million mark.

Meanwhile, online marketing for the film has almost entirely come to a halt.

The reason is simple, Song Ge was sentenced!
In just over a week, with sufficient evidence in hand, the court did not give him any chance at all and demonstrated with swift and resolute speed what it meant to be zero-tolerance towards crimes!

"Six years in prison! A million-dollar fine! Administrative penalties and market bans, and other one-stop services are all included..."

As soon as the verdict came out, Wang Changtian excitedly called Chen Fei to inform him of the good news.

Chen Fei was naturally not surprised by this result.

Either he doesn't take action, or once he does, he will never let Song Ge escape easily.

"Haha, go and keep the two brothers of the Wang family company."

While secretly mocking himself in his heart, Chen Fei turned his attention to the assets of Jingxi Culture.

He is looking to see if there is anything in the company that he can use.

But after looking around, he found with regret that the only "tiankeng" project left in Jingxi was the "Fengshen Trilogy".

As for the project "Bureau 749", most of the shares have been taken away by Penguin Pictures.

"Huh? 'Investiture of the Gods Trilogy'? Even dogs wouldn't want it!"

After curling his lips, Fade Chen withdrew his gaze and threw the soon-to-collapse Jingxi Culture aside.

However, at this time, Penguin Pictures and Alibaba Pictures were like dogs that had smelled a bone. They couldn't wait to get closer and turned their eyes to the big production "Fengshen Trilogy", which had an investment of 30 billion yuan!

(End of this chapter)